"Carter-K8VT" wrote in message
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Don wrote:
"Carter-K8VT" wrote

Fred Garvin wrote:

I was for it at first but we've been there far too long now. Screw it, I
just don't give a **** anymore. More of our troops will die and there's
nothing we can do about it.

Sadly, you might be right. If we stay, then, as you say, more of our
troops will die. If we leave, Iraqi civil war and then major Middle East
destabilization.

So what?

Well, with destabilization of the Middle East, several bad things could
happen...probably one extreme being nuclear war, which many might bother
some folks (excluding the Armageddon/Rapture crowd, of course). At the
very minimum, it would probably disrupt the supply of oil waaaay more
than Katrina did--and make $5/gallon gas look positively cheap.

A truly classic case of "damned if we do and damned if

we don't".

How are *we* damned if the troops leave Iraq?

See "destabilization" above...

...and I presume "we" are a consumer of gasoline or that "we" might not
want that pesky fallout landing on our roof or our crops.

All of it is a non issue.
The US politicians should not have been involved in all of that in the 1st
place.
The best it can do at this point is to get out immediately.
The purpose of the US military is to protect the US and it can't do that
while it is being systematically dessimated in distant lands.